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82303 n00b
Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 44
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Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:11 pm Post subject: Gentoo/FreeBSD anyone? |
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Howdy,
I'm a long term gentoo user (since 2003 at least. I registered here in 2004 but I was using gentoo a while already when that happened) and as much as I love the speed and simplicity of gentoo (yes I really think that ), I love the stability and very clean structure of FreeBSD. Not to mention that it's pretty intuitive. (yes I think that as well )
I'm using Gentoo as well as FreeBSD on desktops and servers. And on my work notebook I'm switching back and forth once in a while because I cannot decide which to use in the long run
Well ... I know there is Gentoo/FreeBSD out there. And as far as I have seen the wiki page is pretty up to date (last edit in july) and it's based on FreeBSD 9.1
I wanted to know if there is anybody out there who is using Gentoo/FreeBSD successfully and can tell me a bit about current stability of builds and if it's worth it to give it a more in-depth look? Is it even been actively developed at the moment? Are the programms still organized the FreeBSD way (3rd party apps in /usr/local/)? Can I still use geli for encryption? And how well is it supported through forums/mailing lists?
I read the phoronix article but it is one year old. In my opinion too old for real insight.
Thx for your time,
Stefan |
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chithanh Developer
Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 2158 Location: Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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On desktop systems it is not as well tested as Linux is. Getting X to run may require some tinkering depending on what hardware you have.
Software is installed to /usr like on a Gentoo Linux system.
There is the #gentoo-bsd IRC channel for support. |
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82303 n00b
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Thx for the answer. FreeBSD runs fine on all my machines - with X and 3D where needed. So I don't think hardware support will be the issue. But I was hoping Gentoo/FreeBSD will be like a combination of the best of both worlds. And one (amongst other) great features of FreeBSD is how they divide core and 3rd party software. So when stuff is installed to /usr, like in linux then this feature is not existant anymore hmm-hmm.
But I will stop by at the irc channel and bother them over there Kind of was hoping it is a bit more than Gentoo with a FreeBSD kernel
Cheers,
Stefan |
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chithanh Developer
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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A division in different directories is not done because portage manages everything. The sys-freebsd package category contains the core software. |
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